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scurf
n.
23 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A scaly or scabby disease of the skin, esp. of the head; also, a similar disease in sheep [quot.:
Palladius
]; (b) the dry slough or scab produced by a caustic medicine, the bursting of a…
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